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2: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Volume Two, History, Biography

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ISBN13: 9781598181142
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The memoir has been highly regarded by the public, military historians, and literary critics. Grant portrayed himself in the persona of the honorable Western hero, whose strength lies in his honesty and straightforwardness. He candidly depicted his battles against both the Confederates and internal army foes. Twain known as the Memoirs a “literary masterpiece.” Given over a century of favorable literary analysis, reviewer Mark Perry states that the Memoirs are “the most significant work” of American non-fiction. There must be many errors of omission in this work, because the subject is too large to be treated of in two volumes in such way as to do justice to all of the officers and men engaged. There were thousands of instances, all over the rebel, of individual, company, regimental and brigade deeds of heroism which deserve special mention and don’t seem to be here alluded to. The troops engaged in them must look to the detailed reports of their individual commanders for the full history of those deeds. Mark Twain wrote: I had been comparing the memoirs with Caesar’s Commentaries… I used to be ready to say in all sincerity, that the same high merits distinguished both books—clarity of remark, directness, simplicity, unpretentiousness, manifest truthfulness, fairness and justice toward friend and foe alike, soldierly candor and frankness, and soldierly avoidance of flowery speech. I placed the two books side by side upon the same high level, and I still think that they belonged there.

ISBN13: 9781598181142
Condition: New
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